mercatus

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    From mercor (“I trade, traffic, deal”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

    Noun

    mercātus m (genitive mercātūs); fourth declension

    1. trade, traffic, buying and selling
    2. market, marketplace
    3. festival assemblage, public feast
    Declension

    Fourth-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative mercātus mercātūs
    genitive mercātūs mercātuum
    dative mercātuī mercātibus
    accusative mercātum mercātūs
    ablative mercātū mercātibus
    vocative mercātus mercātūs
    Descendants
    • Insular Romance:
      • Sardinian: mercadu, melcadu
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • Borrowings (see there for further descendants):

    See also

    Etymology 2

    Active and passive perfect participle of mercor (“to trade, sell”).

    Participle

    mercātus (feminine mercāta, neuter mercātum); first/second-declension participle

    1. having traded
      • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Epidicus 457:
        Meam amicam audivi te esse mercatum.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    2. having been traded[1][2]
    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative mercātus mercāta mercātum mercātī mercātae mercāta
    genitive mercātī mercātae mercātī mercātōrum mercātārum mercātōrum
    dative mercātō mercātae mercātō mercātīs
    accusative mercātum mercātam mercātum mercātōs mercātās mercāta
    ablative mercātō mercātā mercātō mercātīs
    vocative mercāte mercāta mercātum mercātī mercātae mercāta

    References

    1. ^ Allen, Joseph Henry, Greenough, James B. (1903) Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar for schools and colleges: founded on comparative grammar, Boston: Ginn and Company, § 190
    2. ^ “mercor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

    Further reading

    • “mercatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “mercatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "mercatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • mercatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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